Eisner said it best “Style is HOW you do WHAT you do”
Drawing eyes like joe MAD shouldnt be your goal, your goal should be just to draw eyes.
Tangent: I love looking at Buscema’s pencils. He drew just enough info and moved on. You really had to know your stuff to ink JB well. Nowadays inkers are hand held with pencils being too tight
Best advice is from Alan Moore: everybody is influenced by people, but try to be influenced by a lot of people instead of just a few.
I realize he rarely does his own artwork, but he’s worked with a whole fleet of incredible artists over his years, so he knows a thing or two about them.
you develop your own style through a strong foundation. i said i closed myself off from comics…not art in general or the lessons.developing a strong foundation and style go hand in hand. i didnt do it perm, just til i developed myself more as a stronger artist.
btw your thinking of someone else…the animation studio werent the character designers. we’ve discussed this before…you’ve bitched making that mistake before. why dont you remember thissssss.
yeah but clearly the guy i posted was 100% ripping battle chasers off…damn down to the lil designs on the armor. nigga owes joe back checks at this point.
you say this like its a secret. the reason battle chasers got cancelled was cause of ff 7…ive heard this from 4 different big time comic artists lol.
Look at everything available across every medium ever, then make a style of your own based on your knowledge/exposure. If you’re focusing on the one guy who’s popular at the time (the Jim Lee/Joe Mad copycat 90s were horrible) you’re pretty much doing it wrong (though I don’t know if comic studios actually looked for ripoff artists on purpose, to help finish books for lazy artists; if that’s the case, maybe it would be a good idea to look like everyone else).
nah comic companies hatttte rip off artists…or at least claim to. i follow the marvels head recruiting guy. he gives tips on twitter alot for new artist submissions.
I just have a hard time believing that the only artists eligible to work on the mainstream comic studios are the ones who rip off popular artists at the time. Look at Joe Mad’s early work, it looked ‘Jim Lee styled,’ then he changed to something -completely- different. Same goes for Travis Charest, Lenil Yu, Jae Lee. So did they draw like Jim just to get hired?
I haven’t really read comics in years, but the page you posted was copied right out of a wrinkled issue of Battlechasers. All the struggling artists on the planet trying to make a name for themselves, and the copycats still get hired? Suspect.
(All this art talk just reminds me I can’t draw. Thanks, assholes.)
Speaking of animation, I’ve gotten distracted by TVTropes yet again, this time with regards to DCAU (among other things). Damn, I always remember being saddened by his death in Batman Beyond, but I had totally forgotten how fucked up even Mr. Freeze’s origin episode was: